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1901-1910

High School Student

1911-1920

Youth Movement

1911-1920

University Student

1920-1927

Heisenberg's Doctorate

1920-1927

The Quantum Mechanic

1925-1927

The Uncertainty Principle

1925-1927

The Copenhagen Interpretation

1925-1927

Professor in Leipzig

1927-1942

Fission Research

1939-1945

Reviving German Science

1946-1976

Physics and Philosophy

1955-1956

A Brief Chronology

1901-1976

Heisenberg's Students, Assistants, and Visitors

Doctoral Students and Assistants

Erich Bagge (dr & asst)
Guido Beck (asst.)
Felix Bloch (dr & asst.)
Gerhard Blass (asst)
Heimo Dolch (dr)
Hans Euler (dr & asst)
Edwin Gora (dr)
Hermann Arthur Jahn (dr)
Bernhard Kockel (dr)
Rudolf Peierls (dr)
Arnold Siegert (dr)
Edward Teller (dr & asst)
C.F. von Weizsäcker (dr & asst)
Wang Foh-san (dr)

Visitors to the Physics Institute

(no degree or position with Heisenberg, Hund, or Debye)

Edoardo Amaldi
Wolfgang Buchheim
Ugo Fano
Eugene Feenberg
Marcus Fierz
Giovanni Gentile
Otto Halpern
Grete Hermann
William V. Huston
Seishi Kikuchi
Lev Landau
Ettore Majorana
Robert S. Mulliken
Arnold Nordsieck
George Placzek
Stefan Rozental
Fritz Sauter
John C. Slater
Laszlo Tisza
Sin-Itiro Tomonoga
J.H. Van Vleck
Satoshi Watanabe
Victor F. Weisskopf
Gian Carlo Wick
Karl Wirtz

Source: Christian Kleint, "Schüler und Gäste Werner Heisenbergs und Friedrich Hunds in Leipzig," in Christian Kleint and Gerald Wiemers, Werner Heisenberg in Leipzig 1927-1942 (Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Math-naturw. Klasse, 58, Heft 2) (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1993), pp. 136-138.